by Steven Svoboda
On November 6, 2014, an appeals court in Florida upheld a ruling ordering the
circumcision of Chase, a healthy four-year-old boy. The boy's mother, Heather
Hironimus, has been working to protect Chase from circumcision. The judge's original
decision includes a remarkable, and probably unconstitutional, provision that his
mother is not even allowed to inform Chase of her position on circumcision.

At four years old, Chase is a child who is fully aware of his body. He will
experience and remember the pain of a circumcision, and he will be very aware that
his body has been drastically changed.
Public figures such as Richard Dawkins, Russel Crowe, Alicia Silverstone and John
Leguizamo have tweeted in favor of Chase.